Drafts, Designs & More: Expanding Your Weaving Toolbox with Robyn Spady

From Inspiration to Cloth: A Design Workshop for Weavers
What does it take to move from a spark of inspiration to a finished woven fabric that feels intentional, original, and entirely your own? This immersive, design-focused workshop gives you the tools, techniques, and creative framework to do exactly that.

Who It's For Weavers who are ready to deepen their design thinking and explore practical methods for translating ideas into cloth with clarity and purpose.

What You'll Learn The workshop unfolds in three connected stages:

• Foundations — You'll begin with drafts, blocks, and profile drafts, discovering how familiar weave structures move from the page to the loom and ultimately into fabric.
• Fabric Analysis — Shifting focus to the cloth itself, you'll learn to read woven fabric, evaluate yarn and structural choices, and convert your observations back into workable drafts — a skill that sharpens both your eye and your instincts.
• Design in Practice — The workshop concludes with an exploration of creative design approaches, with color strategies woven throughout, giving you a well-stocked design toolbox you'll draw on long after you leave.

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Village of Industry & Art, 320 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, United States

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